MOREHEAD, Ky. -- Two talented sports medicine professionals have joined the Morehead State Sports Medicine department. The Eagles welcome
Skylar Carmichael, ATC and
Isabella Polash, ATC.
Carmichael will work directly with the soccer and cheerleading programs, while Polash will serve as the athletic trainer for volleyball, beach volleyball and softball.
Jordan Kelley, ATC, heads the MSU department.
Carmichael has a Master's Degree from the University of Kentucky and earned her Bachelor's Degree at Wilmington College in Ohio. She is a native of Winchester, Ky. Carmichael has gained clinical experience with the Kentucky men's soccer program (two different stints), Kentucky football, Lexington Sporting Club soccer, Asbury (Ky.) University, Tate's Creek High School and the Lexington Fire Academy.
She has also been a physical therapy technician at UK's Albert B. Chandler Hospital, Drayer Physical Therapy and at Baptist Health Lexington as well as serving as football manager at her high school alma mater, George Rogers Clark.
She holds memberships in the Kentucky Athletic Trainers' Society, Southeast Athletic Trainers' Society and National Athletic Trainers' Society. She has also been awarded the SEATAÂ Memorial Scholarship, Quaker Impact Award as well as her major's award (exercise science, pre-athletic training).
A former student-athlete as a softball player at Kean (N.J.), Polash comes to MSU after a one-year tenure at New Mexico Highlands. She served as head athletic trainer for softball, women's volleyball, wrestling and women's soccer.
Prior to that, Polash worked at RWJ Barnabas Health at the Morahan Center in New Jersey.
During the 2023 season, she worked with Kean's football program. She also has clinical experience at Carteret and Union High Schools in New Jersey. She served as a sports medicine intern for the Dairyland Collegiate Baseball League in 2023. She served as treasurer for the Iota Tau Alpha Athletic Training Education Honor Society.
Polash earned her Bachelor's Degree from Kean in 2024.
